Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Photo: Thad King

Image 2 of 7

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Photo: Thad King

Image 3 of 7

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Photo: Thad King

Image 4 of 7

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Photo: Thad King

Image 5 of 7

Image 6 of 7

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Bullet holes found inside the home of 49-year-old Thad King after an attempted burglary at his Beaumont home on Wednesday morning.

Photo: Thad King

Image 7 of 7

Photos: Beaumont man credits dog for help in violent burglary

1 / 7

Back to Gallery

Thad King attributes his athleticism and his Chihuahua named Lucy as the reasons why the burglary at his Beaumont home Wednesday morning didn't turn deadly.

The 49-year-old had just seen his fiancée and her five-year-old son off for the morning and was home alone on the 400 block of Yorktown Lane.

King was in his bathroom around 6:15 a.m., about to brush his teeth before heading to work with the Jefferson County Drainage District when Lucy's bark alerted him to something suspicious.

When he walked back into his kitchen and looked out onto his patio, he seemed to surprise one of the two men standing in between his open garage and the sliding glass door that they seemed to be walking toward.

"When he saw me, he just kind of stopped," King said. "Like 'Oh crap, there's somebody in there.' He looked startled. And then he raised his gun and pointed it right at me."

King immediately ran back into his bedroom as the shots rang out and was not hurt.

A statement from the Beaumont Police Department described the suspect who fired shots as a 20-something thin black man between 6'0" and 6'2" tall. He was wearing a black hat, a white tank top and had a red bandana over his neck and face.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Southeast Texas Crime Stoppers at 409-833-TIPS or submit tips by downloading the police department's app called P3 TIPS.